If you lived in Goleta in the late 1960s and early ’70s, you might remember seeing these almost comical looking aircraft flying around, but do you know they served a very serious purpose and helped man land on the moon?
They were called Guppies, and their story is quite interesting.
It all started with a guy named Jack Conroy. A remarkable man, he was a part time actor, a bomber pilot in World War II, and he survived time in a German POW camp…